Structure and Regulatory Risk

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title: "Structure and Regulatory Risk"
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short_description: "Structural and regulatory risk from operating across Canada, the United States, Spain, and Mexico under four distinct legal and tax regimes."
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last_edited: 2026-07-03
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The [[four-jurisdiction-framework|Four-Jurisdiction Framework]] deploys the [[direct-hold-solutions-structural-comparison|Direct-Hold
Solutions]] across Canada, the United States, Spain, and Mexico, each using the legal vehicle
form that sovereign law makes available in that jurisdiction. Operating across four distinct
legal and tax regimes introduces structural and regulatory risk that a single-jurisdiction
structure would not carry.

## Multi-jurisdictional legal structure risk

Each Direct-Hold Solution is a separate legal entity, constituted under the law of its own
jurisdiction: a limited partnership in Canada and the United States, a Sociedad Cotizada de
Inversión en el Mercado Inmobiliario in Spain, and a Fideicomiso de Infraestructura en Bienes
Raíces in Mexico. These are not the same legal instrument replicated four times — each is
subject to the corporate, tax, and securities law of its own jurisdiction, and the rights,
protections, and obligations attached to an investment unit in one jurisdiction are not
necessarily identical to those attached to an investment unit in another. An investor should
not assume that a legal characteristic confirmed for one jurisdiction's vehicle — a tax
treatment, a transfer mechanic, a governance right — applies automatically to a vehicle in a
different jurisdiction.

The [[regulated-reporting-entity|Regulated Reporting Entity]] bridge term used throughout this wiki is a
plain-language convenience for describing a shared compliance status across jurisdictions; it
does not eliminate the underlying legal differences between a Canadian reporting issuer, a
United States reporting company, a Spanish Entidad Pública, and a Mexican Emisora.

## Regulatory change risk

Each jurisdiction's securities, tax, and real estate regulatory framework can change after a
Direct-Hold Solution is established. A change in law — including a change to the tax treatment
of flow-through vehicles, a change to continuous disclosure requirements, or a change to
foreign investment rules — could increase compliance costs, alter the economics of a specific
vehicle, or require structural changes to remain compliant. Spain's SOCIMI structure, for
example, depends on maintaining a mandatory listing on a regulated market to preserve its
tax-exempt status; a change to that listing requirement, or a failure to maintain compliance
with it, would affect the tax treatment of that vehicle specifically. Regulatory change risk is
assessed jurisdiction by jurisdiction and is not correlated across the four vehicles, but it is
present in each.

## Tax treatment risk

The flow-through tax treatment that each Direct-Hold Solution relies upon — limited partnership
flow-through taxation in Canada and the United States, SOCIMI tax exemption in Spain, and FIBRA
tax treatment in Mexico — depends on the vehicle continuing to satisfy the conditions each
regime imposes. A failure to satisfy those conditions, whether through a change in the
underlying law or a change in the vehicle's own activities, could result in the vehicle losing
its favorable tax status, which would affect the after-tax income available for distribution.

## Cross-border currency and reporting risk

Because the four vehicles operate in four different currencies and file with four different
regulators — the British Columbia Securities Commission through SEDAR+, the Securities and
Exchange Commission through EDGAR, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, and the
Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores through STIV-2 — an investor holding units in more than
one jurisdiction's vehicle is exposed to differences in currency, reporting timeline, and
disclosure format between vehicles. This is a structural feature of the multi-jurisdiction
framework, not a defect specific to any one vehicle, but it is a risk factor that a portfolio
holding units across jurisdictions should account for.

## See also

- [[about-risks]] — how risk categories are organized across this wiki
- [[four-jurisdiction-framework|Four-Jurisdiction Framework]] — the deployment architecture referenced above
- [[regulated-reporting-entity|Regulated Reporting Entity]] — the cross-jurisdiction disclosure status bridge term
- [[exemptions]] — the prospectus exemptions relied upon in each jurisdiction's offering